JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s struggling state power firm Eskom made a surprise R1.3 billion ($88.39 million) profit in the first half of this financial year… roughly double the profit it made during the same period of the previous year. Eskom’s financial performance is typically stronger in the first half of the year, as it sells […]

Golfers at this week’s Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa will be able to throw off their traditional trousers, and dress for comfort instead in shorts, in a first for the European Tour. South Africa’s Ernie Els welcomed what he said is a “game-changer” decision. The governing body said it will let players wear shorts at the Nov. […]

Do you guys remember when a traffic official tried to get a bribe out of me? I do… writes Canadian expat living in South Africa, Phil Maloney. And I also wrote all about it here. To make a long story short, I got tired of being asked for bribes when I was on the road, […]

POTCHEFSTROOM – South African police on a mission to turn the tide against illicit mining… have actually uncovered more than they bargained for. An intelligence driven operation on Tuesday – by Organised Crime and the Illicit Mining Team – led to the arrest of three suspects (for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition)… AND led […]

South African mobile operator Vodacom Group said on Thursday its Chief Financial Officer Till Streichert will leave the company in June 2020 to pursue an external opportunity. The news came in just two days after the company said its Group Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andries Delport will leave Vodacom in May 2020 to pursue external interests, […]

Lewis, the little Koala who captured the hearts of people around the world when a Port Macquarie grandmother risked her own life to save him, after he had become badly burnt and disoriented in the terrible bushfires that swept across Australia recently, has sadly passed away. The Port Macquarie Koala Hospital, where he was reunited […]

On 9 May 2019 the Australian Koala Foundation announced they believe “there are no more than 80,000 koalas in Australia”, making the species “functionally extinct”. While this number is dramatically lower than the most recent academic estimates, there’s no doubt koala numbers in many places are in steep decline. It’s hard to say exactly how […]

A video going viral on Twitter has captured on film the incredible moment when a worker hanging onto corrugated sheets on the back of a bakkie becomes totally AIRBORNE on the busy N2 motorway in Duban, South Africa! It could have ended in tragedy with the sheets of aluminium appearing to have not been tied […]

Armed police searching for weapons at a roadblock in South Africa got a shock when they found this illegal pistol being brazenly used by a driver – as his GEAR STICK! A photo of the gear stick has made news around the world. The Colt 45 which was being used to select gears on the […]

South Africa’s business confidence improved for the first time in two years, a survey showed on Wednesday, owing to a recovery in residential activity and on expectation of a good shopping season for retailers. The Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) business confidence index (BCI), compiled by the Bureau for Economic Research, was at 26 points for […]

Well known TV chef Gary Rhodes has passed away suddenly at the age of 59, in the United Aram Emirates. Rhodes was best known for featuring on shows like MasterChef in the UK, MasterChef USA and the UK version of Hell’s Kitchen. The Michelin star chef was well known to South African expats living in […]

The driver of a car in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, had a miracle escape after a runaway lorry crashed over a 10-foot high embankment onto a dual carriage way and totally crushed the vehicle, with her inside. The female driver, named as Rochelle Velkers by the Herald Tribune, is recovering in hospital… and is calling […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on the South African Police Service (SAPS) to intensify the manhunt for the person responsible for the killing of 21-year-old Limpopo student, Precious Ramabulana. Ramabulana was found dead on Sunday in her student accommodation in Mokomene, Limpopo, after being attacked by an assailant in the early hours of the morning. […]

Tough decisions will need to be made as soon as possible to turn South African Airways into a viable airline, Public Enterprises Deputy Minister Phumulo Masualle said in the National Assembly on Tuesday whilst participating in a debate on the recent strike at the national carrier. The debate took place a few days after the […]

South African insurance company Hollard has come to the rescue of legendary South African musician Mama Madosini who collapsed, whilst on tour in France, and desperately needed to return home for medical treatment. The 76-year-old’s plight had caught the attention of many South Africans who begged Hollard to help her, despite the fact the musician […]

Nando’s has done it again! The fast-food chicken restaurant chain has produced an advert that pokes fun at the South African government and cuts to the truth of current life in SA. The commercial encourages South Africans to play a game that’s a lot like Monopoly but includes South African twists such as the ‘token […]

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa is blocking arms sales to countries including Saudi Arabia and the UAE in an inspections dispute, endangering billions of dollars of business and thousands of jobs in its struggling defence sector, according to industry officials. The dispute centres on a clause in export documents that requires foreign customers to pledge not […]

Tom Moyane, former commissioner of South African Revenue Service (SARS), appeared for the first time in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court today in the private prosecution case against him. Advocate Gerrie Nel, Head of AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit, is prosecuting Moyane in this case. The date for Moyane’s first appearance has been set for 11 December […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated that the South African government’s attempts to reconfigure and split Eskom into three divisions is not aimed at privatising the embattled power utility. These measures, he said, are rather aimed at stabilising the utility and getting it back on its feet. “We are not going to privatise Eskom,” he said, […]

This incredible CCTV footage from South Africa shows an armed robber being robbed himself by a customer he held, up after the customer did a cheeky SAS style crawl to hoover up stolen loot the original robber had dropped in the raid. The brazen robber had pulled out a gun and ordered a shop owner […]

A South African schoolgirl – Okuhle Mose – has won first place in the world for Hip Hop dancing. Mose’s proud primary school Maragon Ruimsig made the announcement on social media this week. The private school in Ruimsig said that nine-year-old Okuhle – who belongs to Pulzation Dance Studio – had first participated in the […]

South African supermarket chain Checkers, owned by Shoprite Holdings, is looking to grab a larger share of the growing online shopping market by pioneering a new one-hour grocery delivery service named Sixty60. It is South Africa’s first 60-minute mobile app grocery delivery service from a supermarket chain, Checkers says, as it looks to respond to […]

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa faces a prolonged period of weak economic growth marked by rising unemployment, inequality and greater credit-rating risk if the government does not act fast to implement reforms, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday. “The FY20/21 budget to be presented in February should articulate measures to address fiscal and SOE […]

South Africans are reeling after the news of the horrific murder of a student in Limpopo. Precious Ramabulana’s body was found on Sunday. She had been raped and stabbed 52 times, in the room she rented near to  Capricorn TVET College, Ramokgopha campus. The College’s executive management extended its condolences on Monday night to Ramabulana’s […]

World-renowned elephant scientists and conservationists have united in an urgent plea to Zimbabwe, China and other countries considering exporting or importing wild-caught elephants for captive use, to abide by an internationally-agreed near-total ban on such activities that takes effect tomorrow, 26 November 2019. The experts’ plea comes in the wake of Zimbabwe exporting at least […]